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A 25-year-old man from west suburban Bellwood is the second person charged in connection with a shooting Monday on the Far South Side that left one dead and another wounded. In a press release from the Chicago Police Department's News Affairs office, Ray Coleman, of the 1000 block of South 31st Avenue, faces three felony counts - first degree murder, attempted first degree murder and aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm. He is scheduled to appear in bond court today. Michael O. Johnson, 30, of the 300 block of West 106th Place, was ordered held on $1.5 million bail Thursday in the same case.

A man is dead, and two others were wounded in separate gun attacks on the city's Near North and South sides. The latest shooting happened about 1:20 p.m. in the city's Near North neighborhood, said Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. A 22-year-old man was in the intersection of Orleans and Division streets, when a gunman dressed in all red shot him in the head, Mirabelli said, citing preliminary information. The gunman then fled eastbound from the intersection, he said.

Nobody knows how it got there or why, but in the gangway beside Dick Minto's Lincoln Park home grows an odd-looking tropical plant that really shouldn't be there. It should be in Southeast Asia, growing in a moist, shady patch of jungle. Minto, has lived in the house for three decades and swears he didn't plant the amorphophallus konjac, or devil's tongue, that appears every spring--first, as a sort of dark green snowflake on a 2-foot stem. The flower emits a nasty smell to match its funny look.

Two boys, 12 and 14, were shot in the Roseland neighborhood when a gunman stepped from a gangway and opened fire, police said. Both were in serious condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center with wounds to the abdomen, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said. The two were on the corner of the 108th Street and Eggleston Avenue about 5:25 p.m. Thursday when three people emerged from a gangway and at least one opened fire, police said. One of the two victims lives nearby.

A man was found shot dead in a gangway this morning on the Far South Side in the city's Morgan Park neighborhood. The shooting happened about 11:19 a.m. on the 11700 block of South Hale Avenue, said Police News Affairs Officer Mirabelli. The man, who was was described as between the ages of 20 and 25, was found lying in a gangway with gunshot wounds to the back of his head and his shoulder, Mirabelli said, citing preliminary information. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police, Fire Media and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

On the quiet Southwest Side block where many of the kids spend their days playing outside, faces were grim Sunday as more than 50 neighbors gathered around the steps where 13-year-old Adrian Luna was shot and killed. “It is very hard to lose a loved one,” the Rev. Jose Rojas told the crowd, warning that the community should come together to prevent such violence from happening again. “Today, it happened to them. Tomorrow, it could be any of us.” Adrian, whose full name was Roberto Adrian Luna though he went by his middle name, was hanging out with two friends Saturday night on the steps to his Brighton Park neighborhood home in the 4600 block of South Spaulding Avenue.

Four people, including an 11-year-old girl, were shot and wounded late Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a family party in the Pill Hill neighborhood on the city's South Side, Chicago police said. The 10:45 p.m. shooting in the 9100 block of South Chappel Avenue was only a block from the scene of a fatal shooting earlier in the day , though police said it was too soon to tell if they were connected. The victims were among a larger crowd of partygoers outside the home on South Chappel, police said, citing early reports.

Chicago police shot and killed a man in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood before midnight Saturday night, according to police and a union spokesman. The off-duty officer lives in the area and saw a man on the porch of a vacant apartment about 11:30 p.m., Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Patrick Camden said. The officer called 911 twice during the incident, Camden said. He called out to the man to see what he was doing and the man replied "you don't want no part of me," Camden said. The man had a bag or sack over his shoulder and his hand on his waistband, Camden said, but repeatedly ignored the officer's commands to come down after he identified himself as an officer. "So he comes downstairs and the officer says, 'Let me see your hands.' The guy keeps telling him, 'You don't want no part of me,'" Camden said.

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in the West Town community this week. The man attacked the female victim in a bus stop enclosure early Monday and dragged her into an adjacent gangway, where he beat and sexually assaulted her, according to a community alert issued today by police. It happened in the 1000 block of North Western Avenue, according to the alert, which contains surveillance photos of the suspect taken at a nearby business.

Bail was set at $1.5 million today for a man accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy and wounding a man in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side. Michael O. Johnson, 23, of the 300 block of West 106th Place, is charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery, police said. He is accused of opening fire in the 10500 block of South LaSalle Street late Monday afternoon, killing 16-year-old Maurice Knowles and wounding a 24-year-old man. A relative of Maurice had stolen a gun from Johnson, so Johnson and two others went to the home on LaSalle looking for revenge, according to Asst.